By Joost Drieman, VP, Head of Intelligence Best Practices, M-Brain Global. The advent of the internet with all kind of social media applications, search engines and forums as well as the Internet of Things has fundamentally changed the way we collect data. 20 years ago the main complaint was that there was not enough information. Most people found that they were not well informed. Over the last two decades this has changed to an overload of data and information. The amount of available data is very big, probably too big and it is getting bigger. Every second about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created for every person.By 2020…

By Barry Barlow, Senior VP & CTO, Vencore, Inc. “You’ve got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky?” As the delineation between cybercrime and state-sponsored attacks grows more nebulous, coincident with widespread adoption of the cloud, global enterprises are being exposed to significant security threats. As nation states and adversaries alter their tactics from explosives to explosive viruses, cyber warfare is on track to become the new form of traditional warfare. U.S. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) commented in his opening statement on H.R. 3696, the National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (NCCIP) Act of 2013 that “while high profile retail breaches like the one at…

by David Freidenberg, CEO, POMM Inc. What is IoT? As Broadband Internet is becoming globally available and the cost of connecting is decreasing, more and more devices are manufactured with included Wi-Fi capabilities. This is the perfect platform for the forecasted meteoric rise of the phenomena called “Internet of Things” or in short IoT. IoT means connecting all devices that have an ON/OFF switch to the Internet as well as network them to each other: cellphones, electric home appliances from coffee makers, washing machines, to headphones, lamps, wearable devices, health appliances as heart pacers, cars, and almost anything else you can think of. It could also include components of machines, such…